San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-04-29

cream will thus become a matter Of
commerce rather tnan OF the cooks and
contectioneers.
The executors of Miss WOlfe's will
have refused an offer Of 100000 for her
Newport property. The offer was made
by w. X. Vanderbilt. The grounds are
the most beautiful about Newport, and
have long been coveted by those who es-
TEEN the ownership Of magnificent
grounds and dwellings, as patent OF
American nobility.
GENERAL and Mrs. Booth, OF the EDR-
lish salvation army, have reached New
York from England, and already more
disasters have been reported by sea ana
land since the opening OF the year IMAM
in any previous four months OF our ma
tional peace history. MisfOrtunes never
do come singly.
FIGURES won't lie, but Interested
tongues may. Maine is prohibition
state, advocates of prohibition say that
prohibition prohibits and yet Uncle
Sam Issues !, 100 licenses TO sell liquor In
that state. New Hampshire is dry
state: according TO law, but In little Con-
cord there are seVenty-live places IN
which liquor is sold openly. This Is
hardly In concord with the statements OF
the prohibitions. Who twists the truth?
A Houston sport with more money
than mOdesty and less good Judgment
than either, wants TO wager S5,OOO that
the Houston Light Guard can put up
the best drill Of any company In Texas
or in the United States This l5 very
singular statement to be made concern
ing company that decided not to go
to Washington, even before the colored
bugaboO was made a convenient excuse
for remaining at home.
New YORK seems very DESTROYS to put
some wholesome laws upon her statute
books, by the voters and voices OF her
republican legislators, but the demo-
cratic governor who holds the veto pen
has so far paid little attention TO the
wants OF the state outside OF New YORK
City. He evidently regards the approval
OF Tammany as comforting greater
political riches than the appreciation OF
the state.
COLLEGIATE JOE Cook, who can say
more cuss words without swearing than
any other man still out of hades, refer
ring TO certain condemned criminals,
says: "May the Lord have mercy on
their souls and the court lot have mercy
on their bodies" Joe processes to be-
long to the body of him whose great
apostle taught-Vegesnce is mine;
will repay, saith the Lord.
The Jefferson Jlmplecute says: HAS
the state not the right to quarantine
against cholera, smallpox and yellow
fever? The personal liberal men cay
she has not" When JimpleGute wants
the cholera and the smallpox and the
yellow fever as much az man wants his
beer with his daily dinner the state will
very likely accommodate him. Jimple-
cute has evidently bad case OF cholera
infantum, but the state has not inter
fered.
The northern democracy are little
fearful that Grover stopped over on the
Calhoun question. To discriminate be-
tween the patriotism Of Calhoun, who
proposed notification and disuniOn, and
the loyalty of Jefferson Davis, who car
ried out CalhOun's theory, is not so easy
rs It may appear. If the president of
the Union eulOgZes Calhoun, he is In
duty .bOund to eulOgize and sapprOve
Jefl's effort to carry out CalhOun's the
cries. The country always does get
mixed up under a democratic admins
tratiOn.
The Houston Herald, delighting in its
own shame, remarks concerning the pro-
speCtive presence Of the San Antonio
Rife companies at the Washington drill,
that 1.-THE two San Antonio teams would
be the only ones to disgrace Texas at
Washington" The man whose inside is
so black that he breads public appear
ance on the same parade ground with q
dark skin, lest he be taken for his social
equal and cOmrade, does well to keep
Hpll nutEiHp Of the pnlOF line
The Capitol Daily makes one sugges-
ton which the LIGHT can heartily en-
dOrse, and that is that the Associated
Press should discontinue the transmits
sion of the details of prize fights as assO-
ciaied press news. The whole thing is
disgrace to American civilization, and if
it received no notice whatever at the
hands Of the daily press would soon be
q thing Of the past. Ii only lives for the
nOtOrlety il receives and upon which it
subsists. Suppress the mention of these
brutaliZing exhibitions and they will
shortly cease.
CHICAGO is long on divorce, but she is
short on bigamy. A Mormon elder ar
rived there recently. put up at hotel
and registered himself, three wives and
eight children. The proprietor took
long squint at the register, concluded
that ii was piling it on q little TOO strong,
three women to one man, and had the
desGendent Of Joseph arrested for big
amy. Elder Baker waXed wrOth, and
his anger was kindled against the wick
edness of the city, but he had to give
his $500 bond all the same before he
shook the dust from his feet, shook Chi
cagO, and departed for Alabama, to seal
unto himself some more wives. This In
a great country, but its laws and its re-
ligiOns are nightly mixed.
THE disclosures of MIR. Gladstone at
that "WOrkingmen's Dinner" on
Wednesday night, concerning the Par
nell letter, will cost the conservatives a
good appetite for a month. They cannot
dscredit the word of Mr.. Gladstone
with the English people, whatever they
may affect to do with Mr.. Parnell. This
statement of the old bulwark of British
liberty, that Parnell in May, 1882, ex-
pressed the utmost detestatiOn OF the
Phoenix park murders, will carry con-
victiOn TO the minds of many who we're
before uncertain concerning the forgery
Of that Times-ParneH letter. The man
who wrote to Gladstone in 1882 express
ing his detestatiOn Of the Phoenix park
letters, did not write the forged letter.
ONE of the strongest possible reasons
why Russia should desire peace and
does so desire II, is found in the cOndi-
Il on Of her finances. This was urged by
the LIGHT last fall, as an argument in
support OF the opinion that Russia
would not declare war against ROumania
because 1t would involve her in trouble
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